Canty vs Canny - What's the difference?
canty | canny |
lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
* Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe; — , "Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson", 1790
*
Careful, prudent, cautious.
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
Frugal, thrifty.
(Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
* 1783 , (Robert Burns), "Green Grow the Rashes O", Songs and Ballads
(Northumbria) Very or much.
As adjectives the difference between canty and canny
is that canty is lively; cheerful; merry; brisk while canny is careful, prudent, cautious.canty
English
Adjective
(er)- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
Derived terms
* cantilycanny
English
Adjective
(er)- (Ramsay)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- She's a canny lass hor like!
- But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,
- My arms about my dearie O;
- An' warl'y cares, an' warl'y men,
- Mae a' gae tapsalteerie O!
- That's a canny big horse, man!